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Message-ID: <1337847592.15137.83.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 May 2012 11:19:52 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heinz.Egger@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] UBI: Implement Fastmap support

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:11 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> > In the error case, what are the consequences leaving the older
> on-flash
> >> > fastmap? Shouldn't it be invalidated?
> >>
> 
> After thinking a bit more about this case I think the best we can to
> is
> switching to read-only mode if ubi_update_fastmap()
> fails.
> 
Unless it fails because of -EIO, which means the PEB may become bad and
you need to pick a different one and schedule the faulty one for
torturing and marking as bad.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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